Female smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer than men, a new study by the Australian researchers unveiled this fact after surveying about 500,000 adults in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
In the words of lead researchers Dr. Rachel Huxley, the institute’s head of nutrition and lifestyle:
This proves that there’s a two-fold greater risk for women smokers compared to male smokers. That means the habit is even more dangerous for them.
However, what makes women smokers more susceptible to lung cancer is still not very clear even to these researchers. Still, they believe that that it can be due to some bio-chemical factors. In the words of Dr. Huxley:
This might be for bio-chemical reasons or it might be that women actually smoking differently, maybe draw (on the cigarette) harder, but we just don’t know yet.
However, here is good new too for the women smokers according to which giving up smoking reduced the risk of dying from lung cancer by up to 70 per cent. It means if women smokers give their smoking habit then they may stave off deadly lung cancer largely.
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Via: ABC